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Moved: Hard Drive Horrors Part 2 - 11/6/2006 17:26:52
Okay well i came back and i still had a few more questions but it seems that my topic has been bumped down so I'm posting this back up for a bit so i can get some answers to a few more questions
First off, I've decided to keep trying and not contact samsung after all because i want to figure this problem out.
Now what I have done and got it working to a semi-working state is that same as before i formatted it as a USB disk which seemed to work fine, which probibly brought up the suspicion of a faulty IDE but i shooed it away as my other drive could install just fine untill i read this post:
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also I'm pretty sure it is not a faulty IDE cable because I am able to install XP on my smaller 40 GB HDD with no apparent problems
- That's only true assuming you used the same cable with the same connectors. Most IDE cables have a primary/seconday connection, if one works on the primary, it doesn't mean the one on the secondary will also work.
So i thought maybe, just maybe my IDE cable was not working properly, and another thing is it is sort of a old cable with a few knicks and scratches but it never seemed to have a problem before. So after formatting it as a USB disk I've inserted the drive into my computer as a secondary drive and it seems to read and write fine so I have decided maybe to try and install windows to it, because i don't really like having to go to a backup drive for my files, and it is also to have a backup OS incase if something were to go wrong.
But here is my fear, if i were to install windows to that drive and the install would fail in some way, how could i revive my primary disks boot options. From past experience i know when you install a secondary windows, the OS selection prompt from boot.ini sets itself to 0 seconds and automatically selects the Windows that hasn't been set up yet. So that is my question, as always any help what-so-ever will always be appreciated.
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http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/m-346558/key-Hard%252CDrive%252CHorrors/tm.htm#346558
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santa7
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RE: Moved: Hard Drive Horrors Part 2 - 11/6/2006 17:34:26
ookay, so i see now somehow my topic is back so please don't get mad for me making multiple topics for the same thing, did not mean to do that,
also now that the drive works as a secondary disk, I am running checkdisck so I will see how that goes, and if anyone could tell me if that could even help any, please do so
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RE: Moved: Hard Drive Horrors Part 2 - 11/6/2006 18:27:11
Okay windows Check Disk ran and seemed to find nothing wrong
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RE: Moved: Hard Drive Horrors Part 2 - 11/6/2006 23:54:26
Try doing the suggestions listed in the previous thread.
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RE: Moved: Hard Drive Horrors Part 2 - 11/7/2006 21:37:25
im asking of a safe way to restore my original disk structure settings
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